SOLUTION: A crop dusting service needs to prepare a 0.6% pesticide solution. It has an airplane with a 200-gal tank that contains 80 gal of a 0.4% solution. How much of a previously mixed 1%

Question 1041591: A crop dusting service needs to prepare a 0.6% pesticide solution. It has an airplane with a 200-gal tank that contains 80 gal of a 0.4% solution. How much of a previously mixed 1% pesticide solution should be added to the tank to increase the concentration to the desired 0.6%?
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
80 gal*0.004 per/gal (0.4%)=0.32 gal of "pure". Let x=amount of 1% or 0.01 that is added.
0.32 gal+.01x=(80+x)(0.006), the final concentration.
0.32 +0.01x=0.480+0.006 x
0.004x=0.160
x=40 gal
The total amount will be 120 gal of 0.006 =0.720 "pure". One third of that was the more concentrated, and 2/3 was the less concentrated. And the distance between 0.4 and 1.0 is 1/3 of the way at 0.6. Thus, one could predict because the final concentration was twice as close to the start, that twice as much of the starting concentration would be in the final mixture. That is the check.
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